The Educator Grant is a program designed specifically to provide access to Microsoft Azure to college and university professors teaching advanced courses. As part of the program, faculty teaching Azure in their curricula are awarded subscriptions to support their course.

Join the over 750 universities in 74 countries that have participated in the program.

Researchers

Accelerate the speed of scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure

The Microsoft Azure for Research program accelerates scholarly and scientific research customized for academic, government, and industry researchers to use big data computations, collaboration, and data-intensive processing in the cloud. Take full advantage of the power and scalability of Microsoft Azure, a platform that supports frameworks like Azure Machine Learning and programing tools including Linux, Python, Java, Hadoop, and Microsoft .NET. Get access to a variety of tools and resources to maximize the benefits of cloud computing by the following:

Free access to Azure cloud computing and storage (submit proposals for Azure for Research Awards)

Training classes and webinars

Technical resources and support

Community discussion on LinkedIn (Microsoft Azure for Research group) and Twitter (@Azure4Research)